Longhorns football notebook

Tuesday

Texas' next game, Oct. 1 at Iowa State, will start at 6 p.m. and will be televised on FX.

This will be the Longhorns' first appearance on the Fox-owned channel. FX is widely available on many basic cable packages, including Time Warner Austin.

Both teams are 3-0 and have this weekend off. The Cyclones have won the state championship of Iowa — beating second-ranked FCS power Northern Iowa 20-19 and the Big Ten's Iowa 44-41 in overtime — then winning 24-20 at Connecticut.

The 19th-ranked Longhorns will be looking for revenge after losing to Iowa State last year for the first time, one of the lowlights of a 5-7 season.

With Harsin's offense, it's all Horns on deck

Texas used 55 players in the first quarter of the UCLA game, including 23 on offense.

"With the kind of packaging that (co-offensive coordinator) Bryan Harsin brings from Boise State, it forces a lot of different players into the game and develops depth,'' head coach Mack Brown said Monday.

"With all those packages, it gets very complicated, making sure you've got the right players in all the time, but they've handled it really well so far.''

Grant wins national honors for UCLA game

D.J. Grant has been selected national tight end of the week by the College Football Performance Awards group.

Grant caught three touchdown passes in Saturday's 49-20 win over UCLA, tying a school single-game record. Grant set career highs with six catches for 77 yards.

Ahh, so that's how the Horns did it at UCLA

How did Texas get off to such a good start against UCLA after beginning so slowly in the first two games?